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Ramsey Milholland

Booth Tarkington

FormatEbook
Published2006
Words40,572
LanguageEnglish
ReadingIncluded
About this book
Booth Tarkington's novel follows Ramsey Milholland, an ordinary American boy, from his schooldays through young manhood to his enlistment during the First World War. It suits readers interested in early twentieth-century American fiction and depictions of home-front life and patriotism during the WWI era.
Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington

Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the greatest living author in the United States. Several of his stories were adapted to film.

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